Also,

recently a little bird reminded me not to draw conclusions about eating raw until I'm really in the habit of eating 3 raw meals a day (am not, yet). Ate somewhat substantially at roughly breakfast, lunch and dinner times today. Felt like such a luxury. (Actually, it is a luxury!)

I know that doesn't mean diddly to you. I just needed to say it.

Also need to say I didn't go to Starbucks today!

Getting some ironing done

So I soaked a cup or so of brown lentils for about 24 hours in water at room temperature and drained them this morning. I tasted them and they're sweet, soft, just slightly crisp (but no "al dente" feeling, just watery-crisp, like lettuce or something). I don't want to sprout them! I just want to use them like cooked lentils, and revel in how foods can also "cook" in water, with no energy/electricity/gas expended!

I can't find much online yet about eating a legume at this stage (before a sprout appears but after soaking), or I'd give you a link, I'm sorry. But try it and let me know what you think!

(One neat thing about sprouted lentils is they're a good source of iron and aren't missing any amino acids...apparently when you cook them they lose two of those.)

Today's Foodstuffs

smoothie of 1 1/2 big collard leaves + bunch of parsley + 1 apple + the top of a watermelon + leftover green tea + water + lil lemon + lil ginger, really, really good

handful mixed raw nuts

cup hot green tea

some dark chocolate

1 apple

burgers of 1/4 cup ground mixed raw nuts + 1/4 cup soaked lentils + lil chopped green bell pepper + 1 celery stalk chopped + some fajita seasoning + dashes olive oil and salt, topped with chopped tomato and avocado and scooped with romaine lettuce, totally good

juice 2 oranges and 1 grapefruit, wonderful

few bites of leftover kelp noodles w/olive oil, garlic, salt + olives

glass sweet Thai coconut water, very, very good

half a raw coconut cream pie (meat 1 sweet Thai coconut + maybe 1/2 inch cut widthwise from a tub-tofu-cube + lil nutmilk + handful shredded dried coconut + few macadamia nuts + spoonful light molasses-maple syrup-honey mishung blendered and dumped onto piecrust of nutgrounds from a recent nutmilk production with a dash of salt). I won't use molasses with coconut again, somehow it's not that great. And next time will add some avocado to the mixture. I bet that would be super creamy and rich.

Today's Foodstuffs

juice of 2 oranges and 3 small grapefruits and 3 inches cucumber and a lil water, really good!

kelp noodles + leftover nutmus heated + sprinkles of salt and nutritional yeast. Yes I know the heated part isn't kosher. Possibly not the yeast either. But it lead to a good discovery: nutmus could work really, really well as a fake melted cheese

In my defense,

we saw some mild progress yesterday (a volunteering-at-the-hospital day).

There *was* a Starbucks slip. But it was only half the slip it'd been the last volunteering-at-the-hospital day (& didn't involve anything glutenous [a word?]).

There was also none of last week's post-volunteering slippage.

So, we got that going for us.

Today's Foodstuffs

smoothie of nutmilk + 1/2 box blueberries + 1 banana + peanut butter left in the blender after making pb+banana pudding for Chato's frozen bone deals

salad of 1 apple + 1 guava + handful spinach chopped + handful alfalfa sprouts + handful soaked garbanzos chopped, awesome!

Starbucks slip (I think you know what I mean)

some dark chocolate

juice of 2 oranges and 2 small grapefruits

nutmus (nut grounds + chopped onion + grated garlic + olive oil + salt + lil lemon + 7 olives chopped + splash olive brine) and romaine leaves, lil too fresh-garlicky, but eating it anyway

Thinking about

Ok. So I soaked a couple cups of garbanzo beans in water about 24 hours, and they puffed up and got chewable and a little sweet. This is the first step in sprouting them. But whenever I've sprouted them in the past, they taste less sweet than they do at this point, just after the soak.

So we're just going to eat them this way. F not tasting as good as fing possible, are you down. They're in the fridge now. The point is that this morning we were waiting for Chato's raw meat patties to thaw, which was going to take at least an hour, and he was hungry. So I thought, let's start experimenting with the raw vegan thing, now. Let's blender some soaked garbanzos and turnip greens and see if he eats them.

He fing totally ate them?!?!?

Then when the patties were ready, I grated about 1/4 carrot, then blendered another 1/4 with a little water, and mashed it up into the meat.

He totally ate that, too.

I have a very good feeling about this.